ALBANY -- Police arrested a 17-year-old Friday night after a robbery in which a couple was allegedly held up at gun point.

The man and the woman had left work at a nearby restaurant and were in front of 433 State St. just before 11 p.m. when a person approached them, pointed a handgun at them and demanded cellphones and money, police said. The victims gave the robber a cellphone and a small amount of money, and he ran away, police said.

Patrol officers nearby found Nahson Joseph of Lexington Avenue with the stolen property, police said. He was charged with first-degree robbery and fifth-degree criminal possession of stolen property.

He was arraigned at Albany City Court and was sent to the Albany County Jail without bail.